While I don't miss checking the index of my wall of Microsoft books (the light gray binders with the squishy plastic). At least those were (mostly^1^) correct and ad free.

Then the future began and you got MSDN subscription on CD with sample code. Woohoo.

1. they included a somewhat 20 pages of erratas that you sooner or later managed to memorize or punch and put in the correct place.

I only use it for web stuff but W3Schools is usually pretty solid so I wouldn’t be mad having that as a first result.

This is why I've really grown attached to Kagi (paid search engine).

It's made the internet usable again. I'm honestly surprised how much of difference there is. I'd really recommend people give it a shot. (there's a free trial for it)

Some of this is just because some of these frameworks and technologies have been around for a while and they iterate frequently. I see a ton of Azure content that is obsolete after only a few years.

I just go the official docs even if their old and then switch to the latest version once I'm on the website. Most of the software I use has easy index to switch between versions.